Sentence examples for desert territory from inspiring English sources

In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.

Exactly what happened in the desert territory remains in dispute between the Saharan independence movement, Polisario, and the Moroccan government, fighting for the past 35 years over one of the most inhospitable places on Earth.

A Virginia father, Jeremiah Heaton, flew to Africa for the express purpose of claiming the 800 square miles that make up Bir Tawil, a desert territory that falls between the borders of Egypt and Sudan.

Heaton travelled to the desert territory of Bir Tawil for 14 hours in a caravan, before planting a flag designed by his children in the ground and announcing the birth of the new kingdom of North Sudan.

Ahead of a Security Council vote on April 30th, the Americans had circulated a draft resolution proposing that the UN give its blessing to Morocco's 1975 annexation of the desert territory, while providing the hapless Saharawis with the pickings of self-rule.In the end the Security Council postponed taking a decision for a further three months.

Traversing this desert territory is both a physical and mental challenge of endurance and isolation; most days you may not see another soul.

Then, a boundary agreement between the two states was signed, giving Saudi Arabia desert territories in the interior that were formerly part of Jordan; in return, the Saudis officially recognized Al-ʿAqabah as part of Jordan and gave Jordan an additional frontage on the Gulf of Aqaba of about 10 miles (16 km).

This week, we follow the cocaine highway from the streets of Venezuela to Caribbean drug smuggling boats to desert territories controlled by Islamic extremists until finally ending up in the noses of partiers in Europe.

In this episode from season three of our HBO show, Ben Anderson followed the cocaine highway from the streets of Venezuela to drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean to the ports of West Africa and, finally, to desert territories controlled by Islamic extremists.

A breakaway, semi-desert territory on the coast of the Gulf of Aden, Somaliland declared independence after the overthrow of Somali military dictator Siad Barre in 1991.

A breakaway, semi-desert territory of the Gulf of Aden, Somaliland declared independence after the overthrow of Somali military dictator Siad Barre in 1991.